Konvoy: Games venture funding declines in Q2 2023, ripe for M&A
Venture capital funding for gaming continues to decline in Q2 2023, per Konvoy Ventures latest games industry report. However, the venture firm believes this...
Daedalic closes game development after Gollum flop
Daedalic Entertainment, formerly a developer of point-and-click adventure games and most recently The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, is shutting down internal game development...
How game companies manage their reputation — and why it matters
This article is part of GamesBeat’s special issue, Gaming communities: Making connections and fighting toxicity. For developers and publishers, there’s no more important relationship than...
Carrots over sticks: Promoting positive player behavior
This article is part of GamesBeat’s special issue, Gaming communities: Making connections and fighting toxicity. One of the key words that you’ll frequently hear when...
Tears of the Kingdom tops the May best-seller list | Circana May 2023
In what I’m sure is the most shocking news of this month, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was the best-selling game...
SuperScale raises $5.4M to grow games revenue SaaS platform
SuperScale has raised $5.4 million to expand its SaaS platform for mobile game developers and publishers. The platform aims to maximize a game’s commercial...
FTC seeks injunction to block $68.7B Microsoft acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Updated June 13 6:30pm — The FTC has been granted a temporary injunction blocking Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard. The parties are expected to...
OTK launches creator-led publishing label Mad Mushroom
Creator-owned media company One True King (OTK) has launched its own publishing label, Mad Mushroom at its second annual OTK Games Expo. Through its...
Gaming is an unconventional new medical resource
During a panel at this week’s GamesBeat Summit, several experts in the field talked about the rise of digital entertainment as a new form...
TikTok is turning games into cultural phenomena, 3T views in 2022
TikTok is the origin of many online trends, but gaming companies are still figuring out to how maximize results on the platform. In the...